Danube Diversity Video online
This summer a film crew from Danube Diversity visited us on the Donauinsel.
Project News
Visit of the Federal Fishing Association Salzburg
Link to their homepage: http://www.fischereiverband.at/
Visit of the Research Support, Innovation & Technology Transfer of BOKU
Visit in China
Working on the IUCN Red List re-assessment of the Eurasian sturgeon species in Shanghai. Unfortunately the situation has gotten worse: of 19 species in Europe and Asia one species became extinct since the last assessment and five more are on the very brink of being extinct in the wild. Without concerted action now, including a stop of poaching, restoration of habitat and supportive releases it is clear that the next assessment in ten years will be way worse than today.
Release in Czech and getting ready for Winter
The last big release of this year‘s fish took place on the Morava in Czech together with Povodi Moravy. In total we could release around 72.000 juveniles this year, together with the last years this adds up to 145.000 released sterlets so far – yay!
Happy to see you again
Our latest monitoring catch, a nice sterlet lady we caught three times in different seasons over the last year in the very same spot. It is nice to see that she recovered well from when we spawned her artificially this April. Also she did not grow a bit over one year, underlining our assumption that she ist an older gal. We also got our first 0+ recapture..exciting times for sure...and field season only just started!
Visit of the school for kindergarten teachers Bafep 10
Article published: Sturgeon re‐introduction in the Upper and Middle Danube River Basin
Thomas Friedrich published a reviewed article in the Wiley Online Library.
You can find the link to the paper here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jai.13966?fbclid=IwAR3X97H3Vsnl-ZtEDpCW3JIk-tJaPJ4J7k1g5TMqBdFJdBOGAzH5jMK7Nls
Visit of a delegation of the environmental ministry China
Visit at sturgeon hatchery in Germany
Visiting the German broodstock facilities and rearing systems for reintroduction of the European sturgeon (A. sturio) and Baltic sturgeon (A. oxyrinchus) in Berlin, Born and the riverbanks of the Odra.